netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] gianfar: convert u64 status counters to atomic64

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Message-ID: <1360772065.6884.23.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:14:25 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@...escale.com>
Cc:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] gianfar: convert u64 status counters to
 atomic64_t

On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 17:22 +0200, Claudiu Manoil wrote:

> At least it seems that this conversion results in fewer asm
> instructions, as apparently addze and the double lwz/stw are
> not generated anymore. Hopefully it's faster too :P

Strange, could you show us these asm instructions ?



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